Pirahna Plant is a side scrolling, randomly generated, infinite runner with two button controls. Sort of like an "Impossible Game" meets "Robot Unicorn Attack". How many glowy white boxes can you collect? (A the time of writing, the record is 126 :) )
Left Shift (or A): JUMPS Right Shift (or D): DASHES 0: RESTARTS Esc: QUITS
It was made by a rag tag team of individuals at a Ludum Dare get-together in Jönköping Sweden. The idea began as a rhythm game where you would queue up spells by banging your magic bongos in certain patterns. The "Growing" part of the theme was planned to be implemented through spells that grew flowers and wines to help you get forward.
Quite late in the process we realized that we wouldn't be able to finish this idea with any kind of polish and with just hours left we simplified and cut a lot of it. What was left was Pirahna Plant, not as unique, but very likely a much better game than if we had continued.
I'm very happy with the result, especially as a large percentage of the team hadn't really used Unity or even made games before.
Credits - in order of whose name comes first in the alphabets Alfred Olsson Christian Engwall Fredrik Melén Hannes Rahm (me) Johan Kohlin Teo Kohlin
Moral support Filip Pilthammar Pontus Brandt Sofie Andersson
Big thanks to Moderskeppet.se for lending us their office for the weekend!
Technology Engine - Unity 3D Graphics - Photoshop, Procreate, Magicavoxel Sound - Ableton Live, Kontakt
great entry. choice of soft visual effects and simple shapes and colour palette make a great mood with nice music. I like how the collection sound fits into the music and lets you participate in a way. I get lured in by the white dot witting too close to spikes. also i think the pile of blocks you need to dash through should have been a different colour than the spikes.
A kind of BIT.TRIP RUNNER with nice graphics. Way to go for your first game guys ! The RNG is sometimes really unforgiving though, maybe you could have forbid certain patterns.
What a nice game, I spend a lot of time playing it! I like the graphics and that moves that comes with really beautiful graphic. but the idea with the shift isn't the best... Any other, but not shift xd
If not for the crushers it would be my fav :) Hope you guys fix it postLD (like hold dash until RShift release). Btw. is there any way(itch.io/twitter) to follow this project?
Great visuals + calm music == nice mood. Overall one of the most polished.
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The RNG is sometimes really unforgiving though, maybe you could have forbid certain patterns.
I liked it, even if i found the music a bit repetitive
Easy to play but with a certain difficulty. Fun to play!
Note — You don't need the .pdb files with your game, it's only for debugging or stuff like that. Without them your game will lose ~140MB.
Great visuals + calm music == nice mood. Overall one of the most polished.